Chandigarh, Sep 16 (FN Agency) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that 15 projects for construction of roads and bridges have been approved for Delhi NCR at a cost of Rs 53,000 crores. Out of these, 14 projects are in progress and with the completion of these projects he claimed pollution will reduce in Delhi NCR and people will not have to waste their time in long traffic jams. After inspecting the construction work of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway along with Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, the Union Minister addressed a programme organized at Lohtki village of Sohna sub-division of Gurugram district. Mr Gadkari said that Delhi-Mumbai Express Highway which would be about 1380 kms long would be the longest expressway in India and will be ready by March-2023. About Rs 95,000 crores will be spent on this expressway, he added.
The part of this expressway from Delhi to Dausa in Rajasthan and from Vadodara to Ankleshwar will be built by March-2022. This expressway is being developed as an 8-lane access control green field expressway, which can be expanded to 12 lanes by adding four more lanes in the future. A median of 21 meters width is being built on this expressway, which can be reduced in the future to widen the expressway. Mr Gadkari said that about 160 kms length of this expressway falls in the state of Haryana on which Rs 10,400 crore is being spent. Out of this, work has also been allotted for the construction of an expressway of 130 km length. This expressway will pass through Gurugram, Palwal and Nuh districts of Haryana.
Way-side facilities will be built at six places in the part falling in Haryana. This also includes various facilities for passengers like resorts, restaurants, dormitories, hospitals, food courts, fuel stations etc, besides parking garages for trucks etc. Not only this, there will also be commercial space for logistic park. He said that helicopter ambulance service would also be available on this expressway to take the accident victims to the nearest hospital at the earliest. Accepting the demands put forth by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Mr Gadkari informed that three projects including villages Bilaspur, Manesar and Kapriwas have been approved on the Delhi-Jaipur highway at a cost of about Rs 250 crores. On this occasion, Mr Khattar demanded to build underpasses or flyovers at these places so that people get facilities there and the number of accidents are reduced.